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This book foregrounds the contradictions between Frelimo’s socialist ambitions and the reality of its carceral regimen. Rather than rehabilitative institutions, the party’s camps were spaces of social abandonment where detainees suffered at the hands of overseers and endured wretched conditions in remote rural sites.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Revolutionary Morality and the Struggle for Mozambique, 1968–1974
Chapter 2 Political Transition and the Birth of the Reeducation Pipeline, 1974–1976
Chapter 3 “These Moral Deserters Must Be Reeducated” :
Political Consolidation, Development, and the Punitive State, 1977–1983Chapter 4 Vigilante Citizenship and the Politics of Denunciation, 1974–1984
Chapter 5 Reeducation Camps, Austerity, and the Carceral Regime:
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Chapter 6 Abandonment and Everyday Life in Reeducation Camps, 1974–1982
Chapter 7 Wretchedness and Survival during Operação Produção and the Civil War, 1983–1989
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Benedito Luís Machava is an assistant professor of African history at Yale University, where his teaching and research interests include colonial and postcolonial Africa, Lusophone Africa, liberation struggles, decolonization, nation-state building, and socialism in Africa.
Summary
This book foregrounds the contradictions between Frelimo’s socialist ambitions and the reality of its carceral regimen. Rather than rehabilitative institutions, the party’s camps were spaces of social abandonment where detainees suffered at the hands of overseers and endured wretched conditions in remote rural sites.
